This is the story of two raccoons, Bingo and J’miah, two of
the Official Sugar Man Swamp Scouts, sworn to protect the Swamp and wake the
Sugar Man if necessary. This is also the
story of Chap and his mother who are struggling to keep their café and home
from their landlord, Sonny Boy Beaucoup.
Sonny Boy wants to turn the swamp into an alligator theme park and since
Chap’s grandpa, Audie, died a few days ago, Sonny Boy has closed in and raised
the rent so that they can’t afford to piay.
This is also the story of two wild hogs, Buzzie and Clydine, and all 15
of their children, who have decided that they have a hankering for the wild
sugarcane that grows in the Sugar Man Swamp.
This means that they’ll destroy it while eating it. This is the same sugar that Chap and his
mother need to make fried sugar pies in their café. The hogs will also terrorize and destroy
other parts of the swamp while they’re there.
Bingo and J’miah really need to wake the Sugar Man. The only problems are they don’t know where
he is, he’s not easy to wake up if they find him, sometimes he wakes up cranky,
and he has a pet rattlesnake, Gertrude, guarding him. A really fun and exciting story, kids who
like animal stories or mostly true-life stories with a bit of fantasy thrown in will enjoy this
book.
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